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Homeland Security

LANL Seeking Commercial Partner for MagViz Bottled Liquid Screener

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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is seeking a commercial partner to help it further develop, productize and get certified a screening system for bottled liquids that offers greater capabilities for detecting explosives than Bottled Liquid Screeners (BLS) currently being purchased by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a LANL official tells TR2. LANL officials earlier this month demonstrated their MagViz BLS prototypes at a passenger checkpoint at the Albuquerque (N.M.) International Sunport Airport, with the system being used to analyze liquids…

Army

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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